Project Description

RECOGNITION

eureka TIMEs STANDARD

The historic Carson Block building in Eureka’s Old Town is due to be recognized next month at a California Preservation Foundation award ceremony.

It is among 21 building restoration projects set to be recognized at the 34th annual Preservation Design Awards and President’s Awards ceremony in a San Francisco hotel.

“I was there for the opening ceremony,” Page & Turnbull historic architect John Lesak said about the spring 2016 opening. “I think it looks great.”

The Carson Block restoration brought the building to how it looked in the early 1900s, he said.

“The current changes of the Carson Block building consist of: the rehabilitation of the entire building to a period of historic significance about 1910s, which includes the removal of the plaster stucco and glass block that obscured the historic features; this work also includes restoration of the southwest turret, which had been misguidedly removed in the 1950s ‘modernization,’ ” a document about the project on the Northern California Indian Development Council, the organization that owns the Carson Block, website states.

The inside of the building was also renovated and upgraded, the website states.

The council is a private nonprofit established in 1979 that researches, develops and administers social and economic programs for native communities across the north state. One of its primary purposes is conservation and restoration of historic and archeological sites, its website states.